On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@ou.edu> wrote:

I was working on adding some test cases in numpy for the argmin/max functions with some datetime64s. I found that on my 32-bit machine, it fails to parse a date past the Y2.038k date. I find this odd because the datetime is supposed to be 64-bits, but I guess there is some arch-dependent code somewhere?

I think that is actually POSIX for the time_t structure. Which is not to say it's good ;) Google UNIX Year 2038 problem. ISTR reading recently that there is a movement afoot to fix the time_t structure on 32 bit machines for Linux. You've got to wonder, what were the POSIX people thinking?

Chuck